Oracle bolsters former Sun Unix platform

Oracle detailed on Wednesday upgrades to the Solaris Unix OS it inherited from Sun Microsystems, offering improvements in such areas as virtualization.

The company announced Oracle Solaris 10 9/10, Oracle Solaris Cluster 3.3, and Oracle Solaris Studio 12.2. Oracle emphasized that Solaris is designed to leverage large memory and multi-core processor/thread systems as well as offer high performance, security, and scalability.

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“Oracle Solaris provides the proven, enterprise-class reliability, security, and performance customers need for their most mission-critical and essential applications,” said John Fowler, executive vice president of Systems and a holdover from Sun, in a statement released by the company. Sun was acquired by Oracle early this year.

Solaris 10 9/10 features networking and performance enhancements, virtualization, updates to Solaris ZFS (Zettabyte File System) and capabilities to leverage the latest SPARC and x86 processors, Oracle said. Also featured are fixes and hardware support in an “easy-to-install manner,” preserving compatibility with more than 11,000 third-party products and customer applications, Oracle said.

Virtualized Solaris instances become more reliable in the new release when deployed using Oracle VM for SPARC, also known as Logical Domains, Oracle said. ZFS, meanwhile, features tools to aid in recovering from problems related to unplanned downtime. ZFS also offers online device management, for making changes to file system configurations without taking data offline.

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